Hosting a Sim on Tour

Hosting a Sim

There are two ways to host a friend's Sim. The first way is actively seeking out a Sim to host, sort of like holding an open booking. Clicking Host A Sim from the SimPort book allows you to post on your wall for a specific Sim to be sent, which will help you complete your stamp collection. You still have to wait for your friends to respond on their walls, but posting on the wall allows you to at least alert them to what you need. You can make as many requests as you want and at any time, even if your active family doesn't have any performers.

To do that, head to your SimPort book, then click the "Host a Sim" button. You'll have a similar three-step process as you did for Sending a Sim on Tour. First, you choose the type of venue, then you choose which stamp to pursue. Finally, you select which friends you want to see it, and they'll get the appropriate wall posts. If you get a match, you'll get the alert the next time you're online.

The passive way to host a Sim is to simply play the game while online. If any of your friends have a Sim on tour, you'll get the alert when they send the Sim on tour. You'll see the alert in the top-right of your screen with the rest of the notifications, but in case you don't see it or accidentally close the alert, you can view any requests from the SimPort book. Check out the screenshot below.

Player Crowbeak here has a Sim named Stage Face, and we get to see her details: she's a Level 6 singer looking for a live show venue. Now, this is an alternate save from where Lanette is, and is even in Appaloosa Plains. However, Appaloosa Plains automatically updates its lots to deal with venues, and so we can still accept or decline Crowbeak's offer. If you ever decline an offer to host a Sim, no one gets any sort of reward. There is never a reason to decline to host a Sim.

WARNING: The only reason you may want to delay in accepting a Sim is that, once you are officially hosting a Sim, you are locked out from going into Edit Town. Be sure that you finish anything you need to immediately do before accepting a touring Sim.

Once you officially accept a hosting Sim, the game will immediately save. Once you're given control again, your visitor will begin his gig about seven Sim hours from the time you clicked the Accept button. During those seven hours, the game basically operates as normal, though you cannot go into Edit Town, and you can't give a Hosting or Touring request. Simply play the game as normal, and keep an eye on the clock. If you go into map view, you'll see a special map tag listing the location and time of your visitor's gig.

The Visitor's Arrival

When it's time for the visitor to arrive, she'll attempt to go to a venue that matches what she was looking for. Starlight Shores may have three live show venues for example, but Appaloosa Plains only has one. If there is a conflict of venues (for example, if we've already got a gig going on when Stage Face arrives), the gig will cancel and Stage Face will return to Crowbeak but we'll both be rewarded anyway. As long as the Sim tries to do the gig (that is, as long as neither player cancels the tour), both players will be rewarded after the gig concludes. Note that you can have two Sims playing in two different venues at the same time, even if they're same level. For example, in our Starlight Shores, Lanette could be singing in one live show venue while Stage Face is singing in another, and even a third Sim could be performing at the third one. Your audience may be a little small, but there will be plenty of stages to go around.

Stage Face arrives and we get the usual pop-up box asking if we want to use the venue's stage or a custom option. There is no "Saved" option: touring Sims do not take their stage inventory with them. In fact, if we want to give Stage Face her own custom stage, we'll be paying for it. If you already have a ton of props in your family inventory, you can essentially loan them to your visiting Sim and help out their performance, and you'll get the props back afterwards. Even if you don't, it doesn't ultimately matter: when hosting a Sim, their performance quality has nothing to do with the rewards both players get. The mere fact Stage Face shows up means we and Crowbeak will be rewarded with stamps, cash, and Lifetime Happiness points.

After the stage is set up however you wish, your visitor will be completely controlled by the AI. Stage Face will choose her own songs, and her performance will last three hours regardless of whether we're there to watch. Once she's done, we'll be alerted, and both players will auto-post notifications to their walls and get rewarded. Stage Face will take about another hour to leave the town, and once she does, we'll be able to use the Edit Town command again.